Lubricant-atomizer.



. Patented Dec. .|6, |902. C. C. BALDWIN. i LUBR|CANT.ATOM|ZER.`

(Application tiled June I5, 1902) w e s VVENTU/y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES C. ISALDWTIN, OF MOBIENCE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO LEON J. TIFFANY, OF MOMI-ENCE, ILLINOIS.

LU BRlCANT-ATONIIZER.

SPECIFICATIO'N forming part of Letters Patent No. 715,940, dated December 16, 1902. Application filed .Tune 5, 1902. Serial No. 110,300. (No model.)

To (1J/Z whom, it 11m/y concern.: from a source of steam-supply to a steam- Be it known that I, CHARLES C. BALDWIN, motor cylinder that is to be lubricated, the a citizen of the United States, and a resident steam being inducted iu the direction of the of Momence, in the county of Kankakee and arrow in Fig. l. The oil-supply pipe 7 is 5 State of Illinois, have invented a new and Iminserted through a stulng-box 9, provided proved Lubricaut-Atomizer, of which the fol to receive it, this stuffing box, which is of lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. ordinary construction, affording means for This invention relates to means for lubripacking the joint formed between the apercating the valves and interiors of steam-enlured wall of the steam-pipe 8 and the oili gine cylinders, pump-cylinders, or like porfeeding pipe where the latter passes through tions of other motors using live steam or any the steam-pipe. The pipe 7, which is shown other source of power-such 'as compressed broken away, in practice is extended to a air, gas, dsc-as a motive agent, and has for source of oil-supply, which may be a sightits object to provide a novel simple device of feed lub ricator of any approved construction. the character indicated which is adapted to The operation is as follows: Steam passing reliably distribute oil or other lubricant in an in the direct-ion of the arrow a: in the steamatornized condition to the interior parts of a pipe 8 meets a graduated amount of oil or 'steam-motor requiring periodic orcontin nous other lubricant introduced into the bottom of lubrication. the body 5 by the oil-feeding pipe 7. The D The invention consists in the novel conpressure of the dry steam that occupies the struction and combination of parts, asis hereatoxnizer-body 5 causes the steam and oil in inafterdescribed,and defined in the appended commingled condition to pass out of the perclaims. forations a, and thereby vaporize the lubri- Reference is to be had to the accompanying cant, which mixes with the steam and in 5 drawings, forming a part of this specification, finely-divided condition coats the valves, the in which similar characters of reference indipiston, the surface of the cylinder, and the cate corresponding parts in all the figures. piston-rodof the steam-actuated motor,there Figure 1 is a sectional side view of the imby effectively lubricating these parts. The provementappliedwithinasteam-pipe. Fig. concavity on the upper side of the annular 3o 2 is a sectional plan view substantially on the flange 5b serves to retain a small amount of line 2 2 in Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a reversed plan lubricantwhen the operation of the lubricator View of the atomizer. device is started, which modicum of oil re- The atomizer comprises a tubular body 5, oeives the impact of downtlowing steam in having a lateral outlet 6, wherein screws one the tubular body 5, which spreads it out- 35 end of the oil-supply pipe 7. The upper end Wardly and upwardly, S0 that it is brought 5at of the body 5 is preferably flared to adapt into intimate contact with the steam that perit to receive freely a volume of steam. The vades the bore of the steam-pipe 8. By the lower end of the body 5 is provided with a provision of a suitable oil-feeding device the deecting-ange 5b, which extends a suitable influx of lubricating liquid may be graduated 4o distance outside ot' the bottom wall 5C, that and controlled, so that-the supply to-the incloses said lower end of the body, and attords terior of the motor may be continuous while an annular projection, that may be concaved the same is in operation or be periodic, as on the upper side, as shown in Fig. l, and best suits the requirement of the motor with also is annularly channeled on the lower side which the improved oil-atomizing device is 45 near the edge ot said bottom wall, as shown connected.

at 5d in Fig. 3. Having described my invention, I claim as In the body 5 of the atomizer, adjacent to new and desire to secure by Letters Patthe dished upper surface of the deflectingentange 5b, a plurality of radial spaced perfora- 1. A lubricant-atomizer,comprising atubu- 50 tions a, are formed. S indicates a portion of lar body closed at the lower end, and flared at a live-steam pipe extending in complete form the upper end, said body having radial perexterior, a radial ange formed on the tubu- I [SEAL] Corrections in Letters Patent No. 715,940.

in "Lnbrcant-Atoniizers,7 errors appear requiring the following corrections, viz:

lar body immediately below the spaced radial perforations in said body, and a lubricantsupply pipe extended laterally through the live-steam pipe and communicating with the side of the tubular body between its'upper and lower ends.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES C. BALDVIN.

Witnesses:

VICTOR T. BRAssARD, GEORGE HoPPER.

It is hereby certied that in Letters Patent No. 715,940, granted December 16, 1902,

upon the application of Charles C. Baldwin, of Moinence, Illinois, for an improvement Baldwin assigned one-fourth to Leon J. Tiffany, whereas it should have been stated that he assigned three-fourths; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Signed and sealed this' 13th day of January, A. D., 1903.

F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

line 7, of the grant and in the printed head of the specification, it is stated that said Corrections in Letters Patent No. 715,940.

It is hereby certied that in Letters Patent No. H5340, granted December 16, 1902, upon the application of Charles C. Baldwin, of Momenee, Illinois, for an improvement in Lubricant-Atomizers, errors appear requiring the following corrections7 viz: In line 7, of the grant and in the printed houd of the specification, it is statt-d that said Baldwin assi ned one-fourth to Leon J. Ti'nnv, Whereas it should have been stated l that 11e assigned three-fourths; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of' the case in the Patent Oiice. I

Signed and sealed this 13th day of Januari-y. D., 1902.

[SEAL] F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents. 

